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[1] [6] Since 2018, there has been a 4% increase in maternity care deserts in the U.S. [1] In the United States, up to 60,000 women a year experience severe maternal morbidity, life-threatening complications as a result of pregnancy, resulting in up to 700 pregnancy-related deaths annually.
According to a report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 1993 the rate of Severe Maternal Morbidity, rose from 49.5 to 144 "per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations" in 2014, an increase of almost 200 percent. Blood transfusions also increased during the same period with "from 24.5 in 1993 to 122.3 in 2014 and are ...
In the United States the maternal mortality ratio rose during the years 2002-2015. [3] Although improvements in health care facilitated a dramatic decline in maternal mortality worldwide during the 20th century, women still die from complications of pregnancy, though there are significant differences in the top causes per region and income ...
The US maternal mortality rate fell from 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021 to 22.3 per 100,000 in 2022, according to the report, published Thursday by the CDC’s National ...
According to "Incidence of severe maternal morbidity by race and payer status at an academic medical system," by doing a similar study, it was established that black women with Medicaid have the highest rates of mortality, and white women with private insurance have the lowest rates of mortality proving the insurance that the pregnant mother ...
In the United States, severe maternal morbidity has increased over the last several years, impacting greater than 50,000 women in 2014 alone. There is no conclusive reason for this dramatic increase. It is thought that the overall state of health for pregnant women is impacting these rates.
Maternal mortality is an urgent and pervasive problem robbing the world’s children of their mothers. ... maternal death rates have worsened in higher income countries like the United States ...
In a September 2016 ACOG/SMFM consensus, published concurrently in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology and by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), they noted that while they did not yet have a "single, comprehensive definition of severe maternal morbidity" (SMM), the rate of SMM is increasing in the United States as ...